†Amarantoraphidia ventolina Pérez-de la Fuente et al. 2012 (snakefly)
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Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae
Full reference: R. Pérez-de la Fuente, E. Peñalver, X. Delclòs and M. S. Engel. 2012. Snakefly diversity in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Neuropterida, Raphidioptera). ZooKeys 204:1-40
Belongs to Amarantoraphidia according to Y. N. Lu et al. 2015
See also Pérez-de la Fuente et al. 2012
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CES 364.1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is El Soplao amber, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Las Penosas Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at El Soplao amber
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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